Daphne's reflection on Chapter 8

I can't say chapter 8 was my favorite chapter. The way certain questions were worded was confusing sometimes, and I didn't understand. Other questions though, were very easy, such as being presented with a point and a system and then being asked "is each given point a solution to the system of linear equations?" Figuring out the number of solutions for systems of linear equations was not hard. There were intersecting lines, with one solution, parallel lines with no solution, and coincident lines with an infinite number of solutions. You just had to understand that two lines had one solution when they had different slopes & the y-intercept doesn't matter, had no solution when they had the same slope with different y-intercepts and an infinite number of solutions when they had the same slope & same y-intercept.

Daphne's reflection on the Unit 3 Test

The unit 3 test was not as difficult as I thought it would have been. I think I did better on the Chapter 7 portion of it than the chapter 6 portion, because it was done more recently. I did review Chapter 6 the day before, so I did do better on it than I would have if I didn't review it. I would have definitely liked to do better on this unit test because it leaves such a powerful mark on my overall grade, but I can't complain because I also didn't do horribly. Everytime I don't do very well on a test, it makes me want to do that much better on the next one, so I will work my hardest to achieve a better mark !

My reflection on Chapter 7

Chapter 7 has been an okay chapter. I haven't been seriously struggling with it, but it hasn't been coming that easily. The first part was easy; for example questions like, "y= -5x +4" where you had to identify the slope and y-intercept of each line. I knew that the second number was the y-intercept and the first was the slope - simple enough. Obviously since I have never learned anything like this before, it wasn't going to come to me right away, but like most of the things in math, it sinks in eventually. That's what happened with putting things in the general form and using the formula to find slope; I notice that I sometimes overthink things to make them seem more difficult than they really are. After learning the "basic equations" and such of the beginning of chapter 7, learning how to find parallel and perpendicular lines was not hard at all.

My reflection on Chapter 6

I thought chapter 6 was a slightly difficult chapter. I understood the beginning of it (linear/non-linear relations) but it got a little confusing once it got to domain and range. After I read through the textbook a little more and went over it with my dad, I understood it a lot better, and actually found it quite easy.  There were always one or two questions where I needed a little help on, but I eventually got to the point where I could do it by myself. Putting things in set notation was a bit of a struggle when it was first introduced, but like domain and range, I quickly got the hang of it. I did not have a problem with putting domain and range in interval notation or number lines, although I thought putting it in words was strange. Working with functions was not that hard, and same with slope. The concept of rise over run was pretty straight forward, so I understood it.